Stability Analysis of a Delayed Immune Response Model to Viral Infection

The purpose of this work is the study of the qualitative behavior of the homogeneous in space solution of a delay differential equation arising from a model of infection dynamics. This study is mainly based on the monotone dynamical systems theory. Existence and smoothness of solutions are proved, and conditions of asymptotic stability of equilibriums in the sense of monotone dynamical systems are formulated. Then, sufficient conditions of global stability of the nonzero steady state are derived, for the two typical forms of the function f , specifying the efficiency of immune response-mediated virus elimination. Numerical simulations illustrate the analytical results. The obtained theoretical results have been applied, in a context of COVID-19 data calibration, to forecast the immunological behaviour of a real patient.